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At Stitcher, we're creating the best place in the world for podcasts -- the best place to discover, to listen, to distribute and to create. Our award-winning app has been downloaded over 12 million times and delivers listeners their favorite shows via smart phone, smart speaker and connected car. We love podcasts, and every day we're helping more people share in that love. We're looking for smart, motivated podcast enthusiasts to build and grow even faster.

Stitcher is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a staff that is as diverse and inclusive as the growing world of podcasts that we are helping build. We are a part of E.W. Scripps, a 140-year-old media company committed to journalism and free speech.

Benefits:

Flexible working hours and flexible vacation

Collaborative and creative work environment

Snacks and beverages

Competitive compensation and equity

Health insurance including medical, dental and vision

401k matching plan, Employee stock purchase plan(ESPP), bonus plan

Foosball table and regular matches

Open Positions

Designer

At Stitcher, we're creating the best place in the world for podcasts -- the best place to discover, to listen, to distribute and to create. Our award-winning app has been downloaded over 12 million times and delivers listeners their favorite shows via smart phone, smart speaker and connected car. We love podcasts, and every day we're helping more people share in that love. We're looking for smart, motivated podcast enthusiasts to build and grow even faster.

This is a great opportunity to join a small product team and have a large impact on the product and the industry. The Designer will be responsible aspects of the UX and visual design for our mobile apps (iOS and Android), our web app, our automotive and consumer electronics integrations, as well as our partner portal and back office tools. You will work directly with Product Management and Engineering and you'll have the full support of the Director of Design to help us deliver world class products to podcast fans and creators around the world. Come join the team that is shaping the future of podcasting.

What You'll Do

Play a central role in a major redesign of both product and brand in 2018-19, which means lots of exploration and mock ups - bring your imagination.

Produce production level comps, style guides, and assets that are pixel perfect and act as blueprints for the development team. Work effectively with developers through each sprint see your designs executed, working through tradeoffs along the way.

Work with the Director of Design to evolve the visual design of the product based on brand updates, target audiences and an encyclopedic knowledge of current design trends.

Work collaboratively as well as independently. When working independently, use your organizational and communication skills to set and hit desired timelines.

Be a champion of and expert on the Stitcher brand - uphold design and brand standards by assuring your designs fit the visual framework.

Collaborate with the extended team in New York and Los Angeles on various projects.

What You'll Bring To The Job

The ideal candidate will be passionate about great design, consumer software design and podcasts. They will bring great ideas and enthusiasm to the process and team combined with an ability to expediently execute in a fast-changing environment.

Experience designing native mobile apps (we are mobile first) as well as desktop apps, and websites (including mobile responsive sites) from concepts to wireframes to mockups.

Education & Experience/Certifications

Bachelor's degree min in graphic design preferably from a design school

2+ years' experience in the Graphic Design field

This role is located in San Francisco.

Stitcher is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a staff that is as diverse and inclusive as the growing world of podcasts that we are helping build. We offer competitive salaries, a flexible paid time off policy, competitive health benefits, 401(k) matching and other perks. We are a part of E.W. Scripps, a 140-year-old media company committed to journalism and free speech.

Backend Engineer

At Stitcher, we're creating the best place in the world for podcasts -- the best place to discover, to listen, to distribute and to create. Our award-winning app has been downloaded over 12 million times and delivers listeners their favorite shows via smart phone, smart speaker and connected car. We love podcasts, and every day we're helping more people share in that love. We're looking for smart, motivated podcast enthusiasts to build and grow even faster.

To improve our end-user products and our infrastructure as well as accommodate our continued growth, we're looking for a stellar backend web software developer to join our team. In this role, you'll play a significant part in designing and implementing improvements and enhancements to our web properties and to our end-user services in general. You'll develop new features on the Stitcher backend service and help our client teams integrate those features into our mobile and web apps, as well as on consumer platforms like Alexa, Sonos and various automotive dashboards. You will also work to maintain and improve overall system reliability and scalability to ensure a great end-user experience for our growing audience of users. Come join the team that is shaping the future of podcasting.

What You'll Do

Play a central role in architecting and implementing the server components of new features for the Stitcher service, and implement those features on our platform as appropriate by working with other parts of the development team including data engineers, mobile client developers and front end web developers

Use state-of-the-art monitoring and profiling tools to analyze system performance and architect, plan and implement optimizations to improve throughput and user experience

Re-architect and enhance our the B2B portal used by our 50,000+ content providers, allowing them to manage and monitor their content on the Stitcher platform

Re-architect and enhance our internal CMS portal, used by the Stitcher/Midroll content team to publish, manage and monitor both Stitcher produced and externally produced content

Re-architect and enhance our various other web properties including our web app that allows listeners to sync their listening with our mobile apps

Re-architect and enhance the server side services used by all our other clients

Collaborate with the Stitcher / Midroll team to help create and execute on Stitcher/Midroll's strategy to be the leading full stack services provider in the podcasting space.

What You'll Bring To The Job

The ideal candidate will be someone who is passionate about developing great consumer software products and podcasts. They will bring great ideas and enthusiasm to the process and team combined with an ability to expediently execute in a fast changing environment. They will also:

Have meaningful work experience in a demanding software development environment, ideally including small and large companies, and a willingness to bring your best practices to Stitcher

Have excellent server-side programming skills, specifically with PHP and Laravel

Understand the performance implications of the code you write so that Stitcher is able to scale as it grows

Understand the security implications of the code you write

Are both a great self-starter and a great team player (a rare combination we value greatly)

Have great written and verbal communication skills

Value a fun, supportive, collaborative work environment

Education & Experience/Certifications

BA/BS in Computer Science or other equivalent technical discipline

MA/MS candidates preferred

Minimum of 5 years writing application code, preferably in PHP

This role is located in San Francisco and requires limited to no travel. Exceptional candidates outside the Bay Area may be considered for relocation or potentially working from one of our other office locations (New York, Los Angeles, Cincinnati).

Stitcher is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a staff that is as diverse and inclusive as the growing world of podcasts that we are helping build. We offer competitive salaries, a flexible paid time off policy, competitive health benefits, 401(k) matching and other perks. We are a part of E.W. Scripps, a 140-year-old media company committed to journalism and free speech.

Listener Support Specialist

At Stitcher, we're creating the best place in the world for podcasts -- the best place to discover, to listen, to distribute and to create. Our award-winning app has been downloaded over 12 million times and delivers listeners their favorite shows via smart phone, smart speaker and connected car. We love podcasts, and every day we're helping more people share in that love. We're looking for smart, motivated podcast enthusiasts to build and grow even faster.

What You'll Do

Maintain a support ticket queue and respond to Stitcher's free and paid podcast listeners in a helpful and timely manner.

Demonstrate superior troubleshooting skills with ability to think outside of the box and find creative ways to solve customer problems

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Plus Requirements

Experience with Helpshift and/or JIRA

This role is located in San Francisco and requires limited travel.

Stitcher is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a staff that is as diverse and inclusive as the growing world of podcasts that we are helping build. We offer competitive salaries, a flexible paid time off policy, competitive health benefits, 401(k) matching and other perks. We are a part of E.W. Scripps, a 140-year-old media company committed to journalism and free speech.

Data Analyst

At Stitcher, we're creating the best place in the world for podcasts -- the best place to discover, to listen, to distribute and to create. Our award-winning app has been downloaded over 12 million times and delivers listeners their favorite shows via smart phone, smart speaker and connected car. We love podcasts, and every day we're helping more people share in that love. We're looking for smart, motivated podcast enthusiasts to build and grow even faster.

As a Data Analyst at Stitcher, you will be part of a fast-moving data team and responsible for the information needs of the organization, answering analytical questions, building and maintaining the metrics dashboard and digging into the vast repository of raw data to extract meaningful insights. You help support information dashboards, metrics and work closely with members of our highly cross-functional teams to ensure they have a clear understanding of and access to our data. You will be immersed in a wide variety of data-centric technologies and will have an opportunity to both learn and contribute your knowledge to the improvement of the product.

What You'll Do

Be a data ambassador for organizations across Stitcher Media, including marketing, ad operations, content operations, product and the executive team.

Be the expert on where various data repositories are, what they contain and how to interpret them.

Stitcher is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a staff that is as diverse and inclusive as the growing world of podcasts that we are helping build. We offer competitive salaries, a flexible paid time off policy, competitive health benefits, 401(k) matching and other perks. We are a part of E.W. Scripps, a 140-year-old media company committed to journalism and free speech.

DevOps Engineer

At Stitcher, we're creating the best place in the world for podcasts -- the best place to discover, to listen, to distribute and to create. Our award-winning app has been downloaded over 12 million times and delivers listeners their favorite shows via smart phone, smart speaker and connected car. We love podcasts, and every day we're helping more people share in that love. We're looking for smart, motivated podcast enthusiasts to build and grow even faster.

Our development team is growing, and to help us grow we are looking for a skilled DevOps engineer with strong AWS experience. In this role you will work collaboratively with our development, data and operations teams to deploy and operate our systems, and help automate and streamline our operations, controls, and processes. You will design and build tools for deployment, monitoring, automated testing, and operations and help troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test, and production environments. Come join the team that is shaping the future of podcasting.

What You'll Do

Develop our top-of-class CI/CD pipeline to speed time to deployment while minimizing errors and downtime

Get deep into our Change Management systems to deploy infrastructure as code in ways that let us scale rapidly and shift gears and technologies quickly

Create and improve the telemetry, monitoring and alerting systems to ensure rapid response to issues and high availability of the service for end users.

Help integrate next generation technologies into our development and production environments to keep our developers at the cutting edge and our systems purring like kittens

Interact with our development team on security and performance best practices to improve our user experience and defend against the black hats of the world

Work with the operations team to ensure new code meets production environment needs and improves the user experience without sacrificing infrastructure costs or performance

Collaborate with the Stitcher / Midroll team to help create and execute on Stitcher/Midroll's strategy to be the leading full stack services provider in the podcasting space.

What You'll Bring To The Job

The ideal candidate will be someone who is passionate about developing great consumer software products and successfully scaling them. They will bring great ideas and enthusiasm to the process and team combined with an ability to expediently execute in a fast changing environment. They will also have:

Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration

Strong background in complex AWS cloud environments

Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent

Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required)

Strong experience with SQL and MySQL (NoSQL experience is a plus)

A working understanding of code and script (Shell, PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)

Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

Preferred

Experience with AWS CloudFormations

Experience with well architected and feature rich CI/CD pipelines

Experience with CloudTrail and CloudWatch

Experience with AWS Config and Trusted Advisor

Strong security chops

Education & Experience/Certifications

BA/BS in Computer Science or other equivalent technical discipline

MA/MS candidates preferred

Minimum of 5 years systems and network administration experience

Minimum of 2 years working with development teams

This role is located in San Francisco and requires limited to no travel. Exceptional candidates outside the Bay Area may be considered for relocation or potentially working from one of our other office locations (New York, Los Angeles, Cincinnati).

Stitcher is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a staff that is as diverse and inclusive as the growing world of podcasts that we are helping build. We offer competitive salaries, a flexible paid time off policy, competitive health benefits, 401(k) matching and other perks. We are a part of E.W. Scripps, a 140-year-old media company committed to journalism and free speech.

UX Designer

At Stitcher, we’re creating the best place in the world for podcasts -- the best place to discover, to listen, to distribute and to create. Our award-winning app has been downloaded over 12 million times and delivers listeners their favorite shows via smart phone, smart speaker and connected car. We love podcasts, and every day we’re helping more people share in that love. We’re looking for smart, motivated podcast enthusiasts to build and grow even faster.

This is a great opportunity to join a small product team and have a large impact on the product and the industry. The User Experience Designer will be responsible for UI and visual design for our mobile apps (iOS and Android), our web app, our automotive and consumer electronics integrations, as well as our partner portal and back office tools . You will work with directly with Product Management and Engineering and you’ll have the full support of the Director of User Experience to help us deliver world class products to podcast fans and creators around the world. Come join the team that is shaping the future of podcasting.

What you’ll do:

Play a central role in a major redesign of both product and brand in 2018, which means lots of exploration and mock ups - bring your imagination!

Produce production level comps, style guides, and assets that are pixel perfect and act as blueprints for the development team. Follow through each sprint with the same spirit of perfection with the developers to get the designs executed.

Work with Product team to help gather and translate user feedback, competitive app designs and internal and external stakeholder requirements into actionable features and designs.

Work with Product team to execute and analyze usability research to inform key product decisions.

Work collaboratively as well as independently to move the product design forward. When working independently, you will need to be highly organized and communicative to set and hit desired timelines.

Be a champion of and expert on the Stitcher brand - uphold design and brand standards by assuring your designs fit the visual framework.

Collaborate with the Stitcher & Midroll team to help create and execute on Stitcher/Midroll’s strategy to be the leading full stack services provider in the podcasting space

What you’ll bring to the job:

The ideal candidate will be someone who is passionate about great design, consumer software design and podcasts. They will bring great ideas and enthusiasm to the process and team combined with an ability to expediently execute in a fast changing environment.

Experience designing native mobile apps (we are mobile first) as well as desktop apps, and websites (including mobile responsive sites) from concepts to wireframes to mockups

Bachelor's degree min in graphic design preferably from a design school

3+ years experience in the Graphic Design field

This role is located in San Francisco and requires limited to no travel.

Stitcher is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a staff that is as diverse and inclusive as the growing world of podcasts that we are helping build. We offer competitive salaries, a flexible paid time off policy, competitive health benefits, 401(k) matching and other perks. We are a part of E.W. Scripps, a 140-year-old media company committed to journalism and free speech.